The ethics of a public man must be unimpeachable.

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He recalls how Palin quit over the ethics violations of another commissioner, a man who also happened to be the chair of the state Republican Party.

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He was a police informer, appropriately troubled by the complicated ethics of betraying his friends, a man who lived in the full expectation that these transgressions would cost him his life.

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He is a man so disgusted with the lack of ethics he witnessed in private enterprise that he founded a nonprofit to hand out dog food.

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As for Colbert Busch, she has refused to exploit the latest image problem of the man who once was mentioned as a potential presidential contender before his affair with a woman in Argentina and ethics violations left a once-promising career in ruins.

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